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I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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I don't require myself or anyone to go beyond what they feel they can do. I just do suggest - for their own eventual happiness - that they go as far as they can. They can usually go much further than they think.
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Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.
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Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.
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To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.
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Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.
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After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?
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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
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So the best thing is to really work on yourself and opening your own heart and just letting all that stuff [worrying] go. And it is possible. It's sometimes takes a lot of time it's not easy. And a lot of sitting with yourself and trying to work with your own heart.
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Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
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I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.
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I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.
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Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.
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I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too.
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Only dead people need loud music, you know.
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If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions, and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.
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I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have to be aware that people are suffering unjustly, and given our own history we have a duty to stand for the people who are being treated like our parents and grandparents and children were treated.
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In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.
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We alone can devalue gold by not caring if it falls or rises in the marketplace. Wherever there is gold there is a chain, you know, and if your chain is gold so much the worse for you.
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You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.
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This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.
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